#11190 Accompanying Those with Same-Sex Attraction - Rilene Simpson

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🗓️ 10 June 2023

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Questions Covered: 11:32 – Why would someone who is raised Catholic become transgender? 19:00 – As a Catholic school teacher, how do I help my students who identify as a different sex/attracted to same sex? 34:33 – Calling to give word of encouragement as someone who is Catholic and experiences same sex attraction. 37:46 – What is the best way to be a good Christian witness to my gay friends? 46:47 – Where is the balance between being loving and standing up for the truth in regard to all the propaganda that is thrown at us? …

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0:00.0	Well, come back to Cathy Gants, who's live. I am Psy Kelly, your host. And don't ever let
0:21.8	it be said that we that we just kind of play out the string here at the end of the week.
0:26.1	Like Matthew Spencer and Ryleen Simpson to end the week. That's pretty good. You're welcome to call
0:31.2	this hour. We're going to talk about, and I like our guest is Ryleen Simpson, and she
0:36.4	spent a great deal of her adult life as an atheist and a same-sex relationship. And then she was
0:42.3	one of the three people profiled in the documentary film Desire of the Everlasting Hills, which you
0:46.4	should watch. I'm just going to say that right now. Desire of the Everlasting Hills, you should watch it.
0:50.7	It's a story of redemption and conversion in Christ. And after returning to the Catholic faith in
0:55.1	2009, she shares her story at conferences and like now on the radio and EWTN and all over.
1:03.0	And you're welcome to call to talk about same-sex attraction and Ryleen. Well, first of all,
1:09.4	welcome. Thank you so much, Sy. Glad to be here. 888-318-788-4 is the number. But you said it
1:16.3	in a way. I didn't want to forget. I'm holding it on my brain right before we went on the air.
1:20.4	And I want to ask it to you. You said it in the opposite way, but I want to ask it. You didn't
1:24.6	say it as a question, but you just put it to you as a question. Why would someone who's gay want to
1:30.8	be part of the Catholic Church? Okay, that's a great question. Well, I got it from you.
1:37.9	I must be a genius. I think that's possible. Yeah, so I think that what the Catholic Church has to
1:47.1	offer gay people is the same thing that has to offer the rest of us, which is the truth.
1:53.3	And being as it's the church that Christ established for us and our means, primary means of
2:01.2	salvation, I'd want to be there. And that was something that I neglected. When I was in the life
2:08.6	the gay life, I thought that like so many people in the culture that the Catholic Church hated us
2:17.1	and that the Catholic Church was unwelcoming and they didn't want us to be there and nothing
2:24.3	could be further from the truth. And we are all children of God. And those of us who are baptized
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